I need help with my soon to be 1yr old daughter.?

Question

I have searched for similar questions but I havent exactly found the right answer. I need a way to get her to drink from a sippy come and not a bottle. Other answers said try several different sippy cups snother was to go cold turkey and refuse bottles and a couple of other different answers but I have tried all so far and she still wont take a sippy cup. I'm getting worried because she hasnt eaten in since 8:00 last night which is about 19 hours. She is refusing everything now and I dont know what else to do. Any suggestion?

Answer 1

If she isn't eating that's because YOU aren't feeding her.  If she is almost a year old she should be on solids now rather than being bottle fed.  She is refusing everything now because she is in control.  She figures that sooner or later she is going to get a bottle from you and from the looks of things she is.  If you give in she will win and she will still be on the bottle.  19 hours without food is not going to result in your child starving.  When she is more hungry than she is stubborn she will eat.  But GET RID OF THE BOTTLES period.

Answer 2

TAKE HER 2 THE STORE AND LET HER PICK HER OWN ZIPPY CUP I HAVE A 1YR BOY BUT HE DRINKS BOTTLE ONLY AT NIGHT TRY THAT...................... TRY 2 DRINK FROM A ZIPPY CUP YOUR SELF.......... THE ONLY REASON  THAT I' M SAYING THIS IS CZ SHE HAS 2 SEE MORE KIDS HER AGE DRINKING FROM A ZIPPY CUP CZ LITTLE KIDS USUALLY LIKE 2 COPY OLDER KIDS BUT IF THERE NO MORE KIDS U SHOULD TRY IT .......... LITTLE BY LITTLE TAKE THE BOTTLE AWAY DAY BY DAY GIVE HER THE BOTTLE LESS AND LESS................. GOOD LUCK AND HOPEFULLY I HELP A LITTLE OH YEA TRY 2 GET THE SIPPY CUPS THAT HAVE ALMOST LIKE A BOTTLE TIPS SHAPE

Answer 3

Sounds to me like she is testing you. You need to play the reversal on children. See you need her to see that she is choosing to not eat.. Your not a bad parent if you offer her food and she does not take it. You can not force your children to eat, when she is hungry she will let you know and then you can give her a sippy cup and say this is what you can drink from.. and just get rid of all the bottles to begin with, that way she knows that there are no bottles. YOu are the parent here, you need to have some confidence and take some control. Children are a lot smarter then what we give them credit for, you tell her that she can have food when she is ready and that you have a cup for her when she wants something to drink, explain it to her..and I promise that by the end of the day she will start to expect the change and start drinking.

But if for some reason that she continues on then I would contact her doctor and see if there is more going on with her, mentally and physically!

Good Luck, and remember little childrens stomachs are only as big as their fist so they do not need to eat as much as we do!

Answer 4

Give her the bottle now, but try again tomorrow. Keep trying until she accepts it. My daughter was like that, but I just kept trying everyday and finally she took it one day.

Answer 5

She probably do not like how the spout feels, because she so use to the soft nipple on her bottle. Why not try finding a sippy cup with a soft spout, she probably feel more comfortable drinking out of that, because it will feel like the nipple of her bottle. I have the same problem with my son (10 months), he never drank out of the sippy cup with the hard spout, so I found ones with softer ones and he like them better. But you need to remember that you need to stop giving her the bottle because she needs to get use to the sippy cup. It might be hard, but she have to get use to it.

Good Luck!

Answer 6

If she is refusing all she might be teething. I give my 1 year old a sippy cup all day but a bottle at night for bed *just water*. she should be on solids by now so she should not be that hungry with out formula..If all eles fails maybe try to give it to her out of a regular cup.

Answer 7

Have you tried sippy cups that have a soft spout? I had the same problem w/ my son and he really loved these. Gerber makes some ("Nuk" is what I think they're called) that hold about five ounces and have a nice wide spout like a sippy, but is soft like a bottle nipple. After a few weeks on these, I tried out a regular sippy on my son and he took to it just fine! Good Luck!!

Answer 8

Don't refuse to let her have the bottle.  She may be afraid of big changes or simply showing her independence by refusing.  Keep suggesting the sippy cup in a non-threatening way.  Try putting something yummy in the sippy cup (juice she likes etc...) and offering it to her.  If it's something she really likes then she might try it.  (Don't put that same item into the bottle if she refuses.  She just won't be able to have that particular beverage)  The idea of skipping a sippy cup and going right to a regualr drinking cup isn't bad either.  She might want to be like Mommy.